Hats Off To Country is back for its 26th year, and Countrytown spoke to artist and Tamworth resident, Dear Tommie about what to expect.

Two decades since Taylor Swift made her impressive debut, that first single stands tall as an indicator of all that was to come next.

Stella Lefty will perform headline shows in two cities as well as her appearances at this year's Strummingbird Festival.

Zimmerman's hit single, 'Rock and a Hard Place,' has received over 144 million streams in Canada alone.

“I understand it's been a minute since some new music,” Posty recently told fans. So let's trace the timeline to his forthcoming seventh album.

“So two became three, became five, and it just kept growing and growing, and I was shocked that I was making a whole album," Urban reflects with iHeartCountry's Justin Thomson.

"This is the only time and the only city I'm going to speak about this, so break your camera phones out now," Jelly Roll said.

Each week, the team at Countrytown finds the best new country songs to add to our weekly playlist, The Country Drop. Here's our picks released this week, June 19, 2026.

"We’re just going to raise little Nugget as one big happy family," Bunnie stated in a new episode of her 'Dumb Blonde' podcast.

“This song I wrote as a girls’ anthem, a song truly for the girls,” Tori Darke says.

'Australian Idol' 2024 winner, Dylan Wright, gets heartfelt and vulnerable as he opens up about mental health and family struggles ahead of the release of his 'Crossroads' record.

Melanie Dyer is celebrating the release of her poignant, personal new single, 'If She Only Knew.'